Hitman 1 and 2 players probably shouldn’t play Hitman 3 yet

Hitman 3 is the excellent culmination of developer IO Interactive’s modern trilogy of assassination simulators, but fans should probably hold off on playing it for now. That’s because IO’s website that carries the data over from the previous games is crashing due to a crunch of players. This prevents anyone with Hitman 1 or 2 save data from using the items they have unlocked during their playthrough of Hitman 3. Even worse, if you start a Hitman 3 save and then later transfer your Hitman 2 data, the latter will overwrite the former.

IO notified fans this morning that it is aware of the issue, and it is working on a fix. The studio is also asking fans to stop overloading its servers by refreshing its account website.